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Common Tern. (^Sterna fluviatilis.') Two clutches o£ 

 three eggs and one of two eggs of a red variety were shown. 

 This remarkably beautiful and hitherto unknown form 

 had been obtained in England. Three other clutches were 

 known to exist, all taken in the same locality as the above. 

 The ground-colour was rich reddish-brown, the markings 

 chestnut-red, and the shell-markings reddish tinged with 

 mauve. A clutch of three eggs had the ground-colour clear 

 pale blue, very faintly marked with pale brown, and with 

 shell-markings of pale lavender. Another clutch of three 

 remarkably large eggs, about the same size as those of the 

 Sandwich Tern [S. cantiacd), but with normal markings, was 

 also shown. 



Rustic Bunting. {Emberiza rustica.) Two clutches of 

 five eggs each: one had the eggs scrolled with fine hair-lines; 

 the other was a remarkably beautiful set of eggs heavily 

 clouded with rich olive-brown. Both clutches were from 

 Finland, and had been taken on the 28th of May and the 

 1st of June, 1910. 



Ruff. {Pavoncella pugnax) A clutch of four very 

 remarkable eggs from Sweden. The ground-colour was pale 

 greenish-blue, the surface-markings pale olive-brown with 

 a few bold marks of blackish-brown, and the shell-marks 

 pale lavender. The markings were mostly confined to the 

 larger end. 



Mr. R, H. Read exhibited a series of abnormally shaped 

 eggs of the Common Fowl, some of which were most 

 peculiar, especially one which was sausage-shaped and curved 

 like a horse-shoe. 



V/e regret to announce the death of Mr. Eugene William 

 Gates, which occurred at Edgbaston, Birmingham, on the 

 16th of November, 1911. For some years past he had been 

 in failing health, and his death at the comparatively early 

 age of 66 was not therefore unexpected. 



